Jez Conolly

Thanks Rob! Could you please add me to the list if I’m not on it?

A woman (Lesley) and her mother (Dorothy) in a hospital waiting room - a scene from the miniplay ‘Adam & Yves’

Looks like a theatre company will be acting out my short playscript ‘Adam & Yves’ at a venue in Wimbledon on 31/3. More deets to follow - in the unlikely event you’re in the area on that date, and free, you might like to go along.

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I’ll tell you a bad habit podcasters have. They start by saying ‘my first guest needs no introduction’ and then proceed to give you
a lengthy verbal profile of their guest. So obviously you think they *do* need an introduction 🤷

Plate glass edges

If anyone should ever ask me that age-old question ‘what’s your favourite colour?’, my answer would be ‘that greenish colour that you can see along the edge of a sheet of plate glass’. I mean it, it is.

Ché Aimee Dorval - Carnal Needs (Live Video) YouTube video by Ché Aimee Dorval

One more - not really Cocteauesque but one of the best new tracks I’ve heard in a while. youtu.be/HsNtkIycfMk?...

Silver Tunnel YouTube video by Leo Valmont - Topic

Also not bad. youtu.be/X9vAS0AXYv0?...

Waves YouTube video by Art School Girlfriend - Topic

Also this, in the Cocteau/Massive Attack middle ground. youtu.be/0xjHygbcHZk?...

Yndling - It's Almost Like You're Here YouTube video by Yndling

This one’s pretty good, although possibly more like Lush than Cocteaus. youtu.be/YQBUCt4XVdw?...

I spend my waking hours searching for bands and artists that sound a bit like Cocteau Twins, just to fill the void left by them.

THIS JUST IN: yoga teacher breaks wind during class, killing all pupils.

THIS JUST IN: yoga teacher breaks wind during class, killing all pupils.

As bad as things are right now, the thing that worries me the most is that, while a lot of people in the UK/Europe regard Trump as an aberration, what if what follows him is just as bad if not worse? What if it’s not a horrible blip?

That’s my feeling. The real story here is: ‘to what extent is this a part of an orchestrated campaign to reconfigure attitudes as a means of saving money?’ Publishing the words of an eminent but elderly expert in a premeditated attempt to move the needle on the subject. That’s what’s going on here.

a black and white photo of a woman standing in a kitchen with the words `` hmmmm , let me think '' . Alt: a black and white photo of a woman standing in a kitchen with the words `` hmmmm , let me think '' .

Serious question for Reform supporters: given that you want to vote for the Party of Hate, which of these do you hate the most?:

a) immigrants / foreigners
b) liberal, educated people
c) everyone who isn’t you
d) (secretly) yourself

Tough choice I know, but give it a shot.

Lord Offord

Offord. Declined. The living embodiment of the contempt Reform UK has for Scotland. He looks like a semi-melted Gerry Anderson puppet. No, scratch that, Gerry Anderson puppets are infinitely more believable. He has the face of somebody waiting to have their arse handed to them on a plate.

Shabana Mahmood

It’s giving ‘baddie off of Blake’s 7’.

The Witch’s Hat, a poem by Jez Conolly

#WorldBookDay is my flimsy excuse for sharing the poem that I read out at the Granite Noir Crime Writing Festival ‘Into the Dark’ event on 19/3.

Ché Aimee Dorval - Carnal Needs (Live Video) YouTube video by Ché Aimee Dorval

Time to obliterate the relentlessly bleak world news with some excellent new music. Share a song that’s been released in the last few weeks that makes you think people are still out there doing great stuff. youtu.be/HsNtkIycfMk?...

You just know, when a traveller returns from a country and calls it ‘an enigma’, they were lucky to get out of it alive.

Somerville Books Bookshop UK Somerville Books is an independent bookseller based in Rosemount, Aberdeen.

2) please order a book that you’ve been meaning to buy, but do it through this link:

uk.bookshop.org/shop/somervi...

Somerville Books is my local indie bookshop, and buying through this bookshop.org link will benefit Christie who runs it.

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Capture Spiral by Jez Conolly PREORDER In Capture Spiral: An Escape from Memory, Jez Conolly revisits the haunted textures of a 1970s childhood on the Lincolnshire coast, where faded...

Tomorrow, Thursday 5 March, is #worldbookday2026, and to mark the occasion, I would like you to do one of two things (or both!):

1) please order a copy of my new book Capture Spiral:

temporalboundary.bigcartel.com/product/capt...

Copies will begin shipping within the next two weeks.

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#HorrorWritersChat

Thank Eryn!

The is cropped up earlier, and is my ‘creature feature’ so let me share the link that’s on YouTube so that more people can have a listen…

My story ‘Special Collections’ narrated by Kristin Holland on his podcast Nocturnal Transmissons.

youtu.be/VstTFFI-0ts?...

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Little worm…come say hello…that’s a good boy…ahh look at his tiny face! He’s so cute, isn’t he? Out he comes, all wriggly. Goodness me, you’re so long! You must have been living inside that baby’s head a long time! Out here comes, from the eye socket, and into my mouth he drops!

They’re actually ghosts. I’m convinced. Or made up of what was left in the bag. A bit like the duck billed platypus, which both lays eggs and produces milk, making it the only animal that can make its own custard.

Very good answer.

#HorrorWritersChat

I’m not going to say spiders, even though I want to, so instead I’m going to say hippopotamus, because they’re kind of a funny shape but they could turn you into a substance resembling lumpy soup with just one bite. Maybe also a slow loris: cute AF but very poisonous teeth!

Yup, ditto

It’s primal. In our lizard brains, they represent death.

A spider in Kaunas, Lithuania

Here’s one I snapped in Lithuania. It was outside the window, fortunately.

I can’t get past them.

Good answer.